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“We are now, again, facing a situation where the majority of Europe, especially Southern
Europe, is being turned into a concentration camp. It is happening again, in service
of the centuries-old policy of intentional depopulation that the British Empire has
long defended. It’s being done again, in such a fashion, that they are hoping that
people will not fight. And, the single best way to defeat the spread of this policy
today is by the application of the Glass-Steagall Law, again.”

International

Despite fierce opposition from the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, President Obama is
moving to directly arm the Syrian rebels, despite the growing power of radicals aligned
with al-Qaeda in the Syrian opposition.

Bad news is pouring out of Afghanistan in buckets. President Obama and his grim-looking
advisors do not have a clue how to deal with the problems and keep the schedule for
withdrawal of U.S. troops intact.

Economics

The new Alternative for Germany party, which touts itself as opposing the euro, actually
doesn’t; its leading spokesmen are a gang of monetarist economics professors from
the orbit of the Mont Pelerin Society. Their “cure” would be worse than Europe’s current
disease.

Part 1 of a speech by the director of the International Rice Research Institute, based
in the Philippines, to an event on Global Food Security at the Center for Strategic
International Studies in Washington. “We’ve got a major challenge,” Dr. Zeigler said.
“We’re going to have to increase the productivity of our existing lands just to stay
where we are, let alone improve our productivity.”

National

The LaRouche PAC mobilization aims to provide the necessary push for immediate passage
of H.R. 129, the bill by Reps. Marcy Kaptur and Walter Jones which would reinstate
Glass-Steagall, and to get a companion bill introduced, then passed, in the Senate.

Testimony before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights
and Human Rights on “Drone Wars: The Constitutional and Counterterrorism Implications
of Targeted Killing.” Al-Muslimi is a Yemeni journalist who lived in the United States
as a student.